Karnofsky score (KPS)

This scoring system is named after Dr. David A. Karnofsky, who described the scale with Dr. Walter H. Abelmann, Dr. Lloyd F. Craver, and Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal in 1948.
The primary purpose of its development was to allow physicians to evaluate a patient's ability to survive chemotherapy for cancer.

A score between 0 and 100 assigned by a health professional after watching a patient perform common tasks. Decreasing numbers mean that the patient has less ability to perform activities of daily living: a score of 100 means that the patient has normal physical abilities with no signs of disease; a score of 0 means that the patient is dead.

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